Svelte Motion — Framer Motion API for Svelte 5

Svelte Motion brings a Framer Motion-style API to Svelte 5 with motion.<tag> components, gestures, variants, exit animations, layout animation, and utility hooks.

For the latest documentation and examples, visit motion.svelte.page.

Install

npm install @humanspeak/svelte-motion

<script lang="ts">
    import { motion } from '@humanspeak/svelte-motion'
</script>

<motion.button initial={{ opacity: 0 }} animate={{ opacity: 1 }} whileTap={{ scale: 0.97 }}>
    Hello motion
</motion.button>

Framer Motion API Parity

Goal: Framer Motion API parity for Svelte where common React examples can be translated with minimal changes.

Capability	Status
initial / animate / transition	Supported
variants (string keys + inheritance)	Supported
whileHover / whileTap / whileFocus / whileInView	Supported
Drag (drag, constraints, momentum, controls, callbacks)	Supported
AnimatePresence (initial, mode, onExitComplete)	Supported
Layout (layout, layout="position")	Supported (single-element FLIP)
Shared layout (layoutId)	Supported
Pan gesture API (whilePan, onPan*)	Not yet supported
MotionConfig parity beyond transition	Partial
reducedMotion, features, transformPagePoint	Not yet supported

Supported elements

Motion components are generated from canonical HTML/SVG tag lists and exported from src/lib/html/.

• motion.div, motion.button, motion.svg, motion.path, etc.
• Most standard tags are included.
• Excluded by generation: script, style, link, meta, title, head, html, body.

Core components

motion.<tag>

Use motion components the same way you use regular elements, with animation props:

<motion.div
    initial={{ opacity: 0, y: 8 }}
    animate={{ opacity: 1, y: 0 }}
    transition={{ duration: 0.25 }}
/>

MotionConfig

MotionConfig currently supports default transition values for descendants.

<script lang="ts">
    import { MotionConfig, motion } from '@humanspeak/svelte-motion'
</script>

<MotionConfig transition={{ duration: 0.4 }}>
    <motion.div animate={{ scale: 1.05 }} />
</MotionConfig>

AnimatePresence

Exit animations on unmount with support for mode="sync" | "wait" | "popLayout" and onExitComplete.

<script lang="ts">
    import { AnimatePresence, motion } from '@humanspeak/svelte-motion'

    let show = $state(true)
</script>

<AnimatePresence mode="wait" onExitComplete={() => console.log('done')}>
    {#if show}
        <motion.div
            key="card"
            initial={{ opacity: 0, scale: 0.9 }}
            animate={{ opacity: 1, scale: 1 }}
            exit={{ opacity: 0, scale: 0.9, transition: { duration: 0.2 } }}
        />
    {/if}
</AnimatePresence>

<motion.button whileTap={{ scale: 0.97 }} onclick={() => (show = !show)}>Toggle</motion.button>

Notes:

• Direct children of AnimatePresence require key.
• Exit transition precedence: base { duration: 0.35 } < merged transition < exit.transition.

Interaction props

whileHover

<motion.button whileHover={{ scale: 1.05, transition: { duration: 0.12 } }} />

• Uses true-hover gating ((hover: hover) and (pointer: fine)).
• Supports onHoverStart and onHoverEnd.

whileTap

<motion.button whileTap={{ scale: 0.95 }} />

• Supports onTapStart, onTap, onTapCancel.
• Keyboard accessible (Enter/Space).

whileFocus

<motion.button whileFocus={{ scale: 1.05, outline: '2px solid blue' }} />

• Supports onFocusStart and onFocusEnd.

whileInView

<motion.div
    initial={{ opacity: 0, y: 40 }}
    whileInView={{ opacity: 1, y: 0 }}
    onInViewStart={() => console.log('entered')}
    onInViewEnd={() => console.log('left')}
/>

• Uses IntersectionObserver.
• Current implementation uses a fixed threshold behavior (no Framer-style viewport options yet).

Drag

Supported drag props:

• drag: true | 'x' | 'y'
• dragConstraints: pixel object or element ref
• dragElastic, dragMomentum, dragTransition
• dragDirectionLock, dragPropagation, dragSnapToOrigin
• dragListener, dragControls
• whileDrag
• Callbacks: onDragStart, onDrag, onDragEnd, onDirectionLock, onDragTransitionEnd

<script lang="ts">
    import { createDragControls, motion } from '@humanspeak/svelte-motion'

    const controls = createDragControls()
</script>

<button onpointerdown={(e) => controls.start(e)}>Start drag</button>

<motion.div
    drag="x"
    dragControls={controls}
    dragListener={false}
    dragConstraints={{ left: -120, right: 120 }}
    whileDrag={{ scale: 1.03 }}
/>

Variants

<script lang="ts">
    import { motion, type Variants } from '@humanspeak/svelte-motion'

    let open = $state(false)

    const parent: Variants = {
        open: { opacity: 1 },
        closed: { opacity: 0 }
    }

    const child: Variants = {
        open: { x: 0, opacity: 1 },
        closed: { x: -16, opacity: 0 }
    }
</script>

<motion.ul variants={parent} initial="closed" animate={open ? 'open' : 'closed'}>
    <motion.li variants={child}>Item A</motion.li>
    <motion.li variants={child}>Item B</motion.li>
</motion.ul>

• String variant keys are resolved from variants.
• Variant state inherits through context.

Layout animation

Single-element FLIP layout animation:

<motion.div layout />
<motion.div layout="position" />

• layout: translate + scale.
• layout="position": translate only.
• Shared layout (layoutId) is not implemented yet.

Utilities

• useAnimationFrame
• useMotionTemplate
• useSpring
• useTime
• useTransform
• useVelocity
• styleString
• stringifyStyleObject (deprecated)
• createDragControls

The package also re-exports core helpers from motion (for example animate, stagger, transform, easings, and utility functions).

SSR behavior

• Initial visual state is rendered server-side from initial (or first animate keyframe when initial is empty).
• initial={false} skips initial enter animation.
• Hydration path is designed to avoid flicker.

Verification snapshot

Validated against current source and test suite (local run):

• Unit/component tests: 259 passed
• E2E tests: 78 passed, 1 skipped

Known gaps vs Framer Motion

• No shared layout API (layoutId, LayoutGroup).
• No pan gesture API (whilePan, onPan*).
• whileInView does not yet expose Framer-style viewport options.
• MotionConfig currently only provides transition defaults.
• reducedMotion, features, and transformPagePoint are not implemented.

External dependencies

• motion
• motion-dom

License

MIT © Humanspeak, Inc.

Credits

Made with ❤️ by Humanspeak